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Grant Dorsey, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Residence

Mailing Address:
University of California, San Francisco
Division of Infectious Diseases
Box 0811
1001 Potrero Avenue, SFGH 30 408
San Francisco, CA 94143-0811

Office Location:
San Francisco General Hospital, Bldg. 30, Rm. 408

Research Interests:
Clinical and molecular studies of antimalarial drug resistance and the epidemiology of malaria; Interactions between HIV and malaria

Select Publications:
Dorsey G, Staedke S, Clark TD, Njama-Meya D, , Nzarubara B, Maiteki-Sebuguzi C, Dokomajilar C, Kamya MR, Rosenthal PJ. Combination therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria: a longitudinal randomized clinical trial in a cohort of Ugandan children. JAMA 2007;297(20):2210-9.

Kamya MR, Gasasira AF, Achan J, Mebrahtu T, Ruel T, Kekitiinwa A, Charlebois ED, Rosenthal  PJ, Havlir D, Dorsey G. The effect of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis and insecticide treated bednets on the risk of malaria among HIV infected Ugandan children. AIDS 2007;21(15):2059-66.

Greenhouse B, Slater M, Njama-Meya D, Nzarubara B, Maiteki-Sebuguzi C, Clark TD, Staedke SG, Kamya MR, Hubbard A, Rosenthal PJ, Dorsey G. Decreasing efficacy of antimalarial combination therapy in Uganda explained by decreasing host immunity rather than increasing drug resistance. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2009;199(5):758-65.

Arinaitwe E, Sandison TG, Wanzira H, Kakuru A, Homsy J, Kalamya J, Kamya MR, Vora N, Greenhouse B, Rosenthal PJ, Tappero J, Dorsey G. Artemether-lumefantrine versus dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for falciparum malaria: longitudinal randomized trial in HIV-infected and uninfected children. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009;49(11):1629-37.

Sserwanga A, Harris JC, Kigozi R, Menon M, Bukirwa H, Gasasira A, Kakeeto S, Kizito F, Quinto E, Rubahika D, Nasr S, Filler S, Kamya MR, Dorsey G. Improved malaria case management through the implementation of a health facility-based sentinel site surveillance system in Uganda. PLoS One 2011; 6(1):e16316.

Education and Training:

M.D., Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas

Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley

Residency, University of California, San Francisco

Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco


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